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on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by … pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
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, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then … pollution changes. Finally, we compare the model-driven decomposition to a statistical decomposition. The model and data suggest …
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In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
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those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …
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Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...
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This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
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Are 'green' environmental concerns - about climate change, biodiversity, pollution - deterring today's citizens from …
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analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using … transition, and heterogeneity across regions remains considerable. -- Pollution abatement and control expenditure ; transition …
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This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five-Year Plan on internal movements of high-skilled labour across Chinese prefecture cities. Using data on migration flows calculated through changes in Hukou status, this study suggests...
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This article examines pollution and environmental mortality in an economy where fertility is endogenous and output is … pollution-induced mortality but also shifts resources to the clean sector. If the dirty sector is more capital intensive, then … expansion of population boosts total pollution, aggravating mortality. …
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